Linux Magazine
Linux Magazine is a journal that is published by the Medialinx AG. It is aimed at readers who work professionally with Linux. Linux Magazine is the second oldest magazine about Linux (and claims to be the oldest in Europe ) worldwide. The first issue appeared in October 1994 Magazine of the Delug. The slogan of the magazine is " The Magazine for Linux Professionals ".
The printed edition is given as 36,000 (as of February 18, 2013 ).
Publication
The magazine is published monthly on every first Thursday of the month. An edition retails for € 5.95 in Germany, Austria and € 6.30 in 11.00 sfr in Switzerland. Since issue 11/2008, there are at the kiosk in parallel an issue with the so-called Delug DVD for 8.50 € (9.95 € in Austria and 17,00 sfr in Switzerland) free to buy. This book with disk was previously only in the form of a special subscription.
A quarterly special edition is published with special topics such as networking, security or hardware. It costs € 9.80. Furthermore, issues of Linux Magazine exist in English, Polish, Romanian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Editor in Chief
Since November 2000, January Kleinert, before Tom Schwaller and Harald Milz.
Content
Linux Magazine is aimed primarily at professional Linux users. Every month will be treated emphases. These come from different areas of the Linux environment: Internet applications, programming, security, etc.
There are also some fixed headings which are represented in each issue:
- News: News from the world of Linux
- Numbers and trends
- Zacks kernel News
- InSecurity News (now Insecurity Bulletin online) by Mark Vogelsberger
- The column " From the Life of a Sysadmin " by Charly Kühnast
- Perl snapshot of Michael Schilli
- Projects kitchen and Debianopolis
It is worth mentioning that the Linux Magazine was the only German -language magazine that reports on news from the security environment in detail (about 5 pages per issue ) per month. Author of this was from 1999 until 2011 Mark Vogel Berger, supervising editor since 2009 Nils Magnus, previously Achim Leitner. The idea for the InSecurity news originally came from Mark Vogelsberger. Meanwhile, the news InSecurity have found its way into the international editions of Linux Magazine. The InSecurity News were replaced by the Insecurity Bulletin as an online blog in May 2011. This now provides more detailed articles and analysis of current security vulnerabilities.
More Magazines
From the category Linux User magazine of the same, which is for end users was. From the same publisher, the magazine is distributed easyLinux which is designed especially for Linux beginners without any prior knowledge.
The world's oldest magazine (launched March 1994), which is almost exclusively concerned with Linux, Linux Journal is the English of the house Belltown Media, Inc.